Drug Channels News Roundup, Mid-June 2026: Biosimilar Development Barriers, Hospital Specialty Pharmacy Growth, Medicaid Incentives, Drug Pricing Tradeoffs, and the Prescription-Filling Process

By Bryce Platt, PharmD Summer officially starts this weekend! Consider doing a few of your lifting sets (or work meetings) outside. The healthier you are, the longer you’ll be able to read our news roundups, so everybody wins! In this issue: A Leaky Biosimilar Funnel Reasons for Growth in Hospital Specialty Pharmacies The Impact of Payment Arrangements on Medicaid Utilization Drug Innovation Versus Cost Containment Extra: The Process of Filling a Pharmacy Prescription P.S. Join my nearly 36,000 LinkedIn followers for valuable daily posts at 9 a.m. ET. Read more » © 2006-2026 HMP Omnimedia, LLC d/b/a Drug Channels Institute…

By Bryce Platt, PharmD

Summer officially starts this weekend!

Consider doing a few of your lifting sets (or work meetings) outside.

The healthier you are, the longer you’ll be able to read our news roundups, so everybody wins!

In this issue:

• A Leaky Biosimilar Funnel

• Reasons for Growth in Hospital Specialty Pharmacies

• The Impact of Payment Arrangements on Medicaid Utilization

• Drug Innovation Versus Cost Containment

Extra: The Process of Filling a Pharmacy Prescription

P.S. Join my nearly 36,000 LinkedIn followers for valuable daily posts at 9 a.m. ET. Read more »

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